Reply #5: Looks like some repubs are trying to drag the state [View All]

[salin]

right into the fifties. Just shows how emboldened and all-powerful they believe themselves to be - no fear of backlash, no sense that they could ever lose power. Given, as the OP says, the GOP in GA was winning elections w/out the African American vote - one has to ask... then what is the point of this modern day poll tax? A sign of more and more restrictive laws to be passed a way to begin to try to reenact Jim Crow? Sadly, the lack of strong, overwhelming national reaction to the massive and clear disenfranchisement of black voters in Florida sent a signal someone on Ga.

The bigger question is how many other states are quietly trying to do the same thing?